Tufting-button.



No. 794,979. PATENTED JULY 19, 1995.

A. FRESOHL.

TUFTING BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED M91122, 11995..

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UNITED STATES Patented July 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED FRESCHL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE F. A. NEIDER COMPANY, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION OF KENTUCKY.

TUFTlNG-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 794,973, dated July 18, 1905.

Application filed March 22,1905. Serial No. 251,4=60.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED FRESCHL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tufting-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a tuftingbutton with two prongs which are relatively so situated that they readily pierce the material through which they are pushed and do not permit the material to go between them, so as to spread them apart.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tuftingbutton embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the back and prongs before the cap has been applied to them. Figs. 3, 4L, and 5 illustrate the different forms the blanks assume in making my tufting-button.

The tufting-button consists of a back a in the shape of a circle bent inward along a radial line in the same horizontal plane with the back and having prongs a a bent thence at right angles to the back, standing adjacent to each other, and having the prong a. longer than the prong a. The prong a is spread at its end, and the edges a a project inward upon each side of the end a of the prong o In'Figs. 3, 4:, and 5 I have illustrated the form the blanks take in the preferred process of making my button. Fig. 3 illustrates the piece of wire as it is cut from a long wire preparatory to forming the back and prongs of my tufting-button. Fig. 4 shows the wire having one end flattened and pointed,

and Fig. 5 shows the edges of the flattened portion turned inward. The blank shown in Fig. 5 is then bent as shown in Fig. 2, forming the back and prongs, so that the shorter prong has its end sheathed by the end of the longer prong.

In use when the prongs are thrust through material the point of the longer prong makes the first perforation readily, which is enlarged by the increasing diameter of the prongs. The edges a a cause the prongs to make but a single hole and prevent the material coming between the prongs.

What I claim is A wire tufting-button consisting of a wire bent to form the back and prongs standing adjacent to each other, one prong being longer than the other and having its end outspread and bent inward about the end of the shorter prong.

ALFRED FRESCHL. 

